What World Do I Want to Live In?
For Students, Videos from This Week's Classes, In the Garden, Thought of the Week Benjamin Brown For Students, Videos from This Week's Classes, In the Garden, Thought of the Week Benjamin Brown

What World Do I Want to Live In?

This week I'm setting up my first-ever worm tea rig (the brewing comes in my next video!), getting honest with you about a very full summer ahead, and reflecting on a question I keep asking myself: what world do I want to live in? Plus it's potluck week, the plant raffle, and a stack of videos on the Honorable Harvest and the Three Sisters. Come grow with me.

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Assume It's a Good Guy
For Students, Community News, Videos from This Week's Classes, In the Garden, Thought of the Week Benjamin Brown For Students, Community News, Videos from This Week's Classes, In the Garden, Thought of the Week Benjamin Brown

Assume It's a Good Guy

Most of the insects in your garden aren't pests — they're allies. This week we're meeting the beneficial bugs that keep things in balance in the Southern California garden, from the ladybugs you can buy at the nursery to the assassin bugs hiding in plain sight. Plus a thought on what it means to assume the best of something before you know it.

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Everything Comes Back Around
For Students, Videos from This Week's Classes, In the Garden, Thought of the Week Benjamin Brown For Students, Videos from This Week's Classes, In the Garden, Thought of the Week Benjamin Brown

Everything Comes Back Around

This week's newsletter has a meaty deep-dive on drip irrigation math (with a worked example from my hugelkultur bed), a heads-up on spider mite season, and a recommendation for the green lacewings I use to keep tomatoes pest-free. I also share a beautiful afternoon spent at Manju Kumar's regenerative food forest — one of the most inspiring gardens in our area — and a Thought of the Week about kinship, gratitude, and serendipity that I didn't expect to write but couldn't put down.

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